This 9-part seminar series is specifically designed for violence interrupters and outreach workers of the Crisis Management System (CMS).
The seminars are on zoom and run from 1-3 pm on the following dates in 2021: 1/26, 2/9, 2/23, 3/9, 3/23, 4/6, 4/20, 5/4, 5/18.
Participants who attend all 7 of 9 seminars will receive a project grant of $1500 to use in the community. Participants will also receive a joint certificate from the Columbia Center for Justice and the Center for NuLeadership.
Registration is closed. For more information please contact Jaael@nuleadership.org.
Instructor: Ivelyse Andino is an Afro-Latina health educator born and raised in The Bronx. She is the founder and CEO of Radical Health and a Commissioner on the New York City Commission on Gender Equity. Radical Health is the first Latina-owned and operated Benefit Corp in NYC that combines health education with community organizing with technology. Ivelyse is committed to transforming healthcare access and delivery to make it equitable and available to all, beginning with communities of color.
Processing the Protests
In this seminar, we will reflect on the personal and professional impacts of the 2020 protests, think about protests through history, the issues that spur them, and how we can ensure that protests lead to societal transformation.
Date: 2/9/2021
Time: 1pm-3pm
Title: Processing the Protests
Instructor: Andom Ghebreghiorgis is the son of Eritrean activists who fought for independence in their native land. Andom has activism in his blood and believes that US imperialism must be stopped and that Black and Indigenous people of this land and around the world must have power and control of resources. Andom was a special education teacher in NYC public high schools, a congressional candidate in New York's 16th district, and is a policy writer and analyst.
Instructor: Adaku Utah is a 6th generation Igbo healer committed to co-creating communities that are invested in taking care of each other. Adaku's work is rooted in healing relationships across time, generation, lineage, and identity. We all come from colonized and violent histories that have created healing and healthcare based off of values, systems, and laws that punish, kill, and displace folx. Adaku works towards providing care that is in integrity with healing justice, disability justice, and transformative justice principles.
Instructor: Samira Abdul-Karim is an Organizational Psychologist, consultant, facilitator, and coach. Samira’s work focuses on increasing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), developing organizations, and facilitating challenging conversations for personal or professional growth.
Instructor: Marlon Peterson is founder of The Precedential Group, a social justice consulting firm that helps people and organizations understand and work towards prison abolition. Marlon is author of the new book, "Bird Uncaged," which is the story of his life, surviving incarceration, transforming lives of young people, and leading organizations. Marlon is on the board of the Center for Court Innovation and has deep roots with the Fortune Society, the Crown Heights Mediation Center, H.O.L.L.A., and New Yorkers Against Gun Violence.
You are on Mute!
In this seminar, we will explore strategies for successfully transitioning online and using technology to build and maintain authentic human relationships while discussing the importance of cybersecurity and open source alternatives to corporate technology.
Date: 4/6/2021
Time: 1pm-3pm
Title: You are on Mute!
Instructors: Paul Salandy & Alfredo Lopez. Paul is the founder and CEO of Oversoul Media Group. Paul is a marketing strategist with expertise in market research, business process improvement, social media, creative marketing, photography, videography, and graphic design. Paul is committed to using his talents and skills for social justice. Alfredo is a founder of May First Movement Technology, the largest political progressive Internet membership organization in this country. He is also a leader in the Puerto Rican Independence, labor, and anti-war movements.
Instructor: Fatima Ashraf is a professor of public policy and non-profit management at the City College of New York. Her courses focus on criminal legal and public health policies and their entrenchment in carceral and colonial politics and inequitable systems of governance. Fatima has worked in city government and philanthropy and in 2010, secured the first city budget allocation for CMS programs.
Instructor: Janos Marton is a lawyer and advocate and has spent his life fighting against the unjust policies and practices in the criminal legal system. Janos has fought public corruption, trained progressive prosecutors, worked with the ACLU and organized with #closeRIkers.
The Digital Divide
In this seminar, we will explore how the tech sector took advantage of the pandemic by implementing extractive economics & kicking surveillance capitalism into high gear. We will discuss how to push back against disaster capitalism.
Date: 5/18/2021
Time: 1pm-3pm
Title: The Digital Divide
Instructor: Nabil Hassein is a technologist, educator, organizer, and beginner media scholar. Nabil is a PhD student in NYU’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and previously worked as a computer programmer and teacher. Nabil has organized with grassroots abolitionist campaigns against prisons and police. Nabil studies the negative social impacts of technology on communities yet remains hopeful that another technology is possible, one that is not entangled with human oppression and ecological destruction.